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Battleborn Adds Microtransactions This Week, Because That’ll Help
I really enjoy Battleborn, but it’s not doing well. Overshadowed and misunderstood, its popularityis off the low end of most charts. The addition of premium currency to purchase special taunts and skins is exactly not the shot in the arm the game needs. I have a hard enough time trying to convince people that the…
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Nyko Has Speakers For Your Controllers And Rubber Straps For Your Forearms
If you’re the kind of online player who instantly mutes everybody talking at the beginning of a match, then the Nyko SpeakerCom is probably not for you. Maybe go with virtual reality acupressure arm strap instead. Nyko brings weird things to E3. The weirdest to me, the $24.99 SpeakerCom, might be the most convenient to…
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New Zelda Amiibo, Waluigi Amiibo, Boo Amiibo, All The Amiibo
Not only are we getting a trio of Amiibo figures based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild—including the first-ever articulated Amiibo—Nintendo has seven new Super Mario Amiibo coming in November, complete with a glowing ghost and the worst character ever. Nintendo’s E3 Amiibo page treats the Breath of the Wild Amiibo all…
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The LEGO Force Awakens Demo Shows Off All The New Stuff
In case you were wondering if the ship battles, cover-based shooting and multi-builds were enough to get you to buy another movie-based LEGO game, the free LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens demo has all of those things. Launched last night for the PlayStation 4 and available this afternoon for the Xbox One, the LEGO…
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The Crash Bandicoot Revival Is Off To A Good Start
While a trio of remasters and a Skylanders cameo isn’t quite the Crash Bandicoot revival fans were hoping for, it’s a promising new beginning. And hey, new toy. When I heard that Crash would be making his current-generation debut in this fall’s Skylanders Imaginators, I cringed. I like Crash. I like Skylanders. Put them together…
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The First Ten Minutes Of Trials Of The Blood Dragon
Ubisoft’s surprise E3 release is a combination of the motorbike action of the Trials series and the over-the-top neon ‘80s action movie aesthetic of Far Cry 3 expansion Blood Dragon. They’ve made something beautiful together. The game begins with a bike ride through the hills of war-torn Vietnam. Blood Dragon hero Rex “Power” Colt narrates.…
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New OSVR Headset Delivers Rift And Vive Specs For $399
Coming in July from the Open Source Virtual Reality Consortium, the Hacker Development Kit 2 virtual reality headset matches the stats of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for only $399. Co-founded and organized by hardware makers Razer and Sensics, OSVR is an open source virtual reality software platform that aims to set an open…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee: Winners!
The weekend before last I asked our readers, as I do every year, to give us their vision of what E3 2016 might look like. Many of their entries were eerily accurate, and by that I mean not at all accurate, but highly amusing. This week’s winner, Ginger Snap, combined the growing trend of virtual…
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The Elder Scrolls Online Rolls Out Worldwide Level-Scaling This Fall
Exploring Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online with friends is getting a lot easier this fall, when One Tamriel introduces level-scaling to the entire game world. The developers of the free-to-play Elder Scrolls MMO have been talking about rolling out level-scaling to the world since late last year. At tonight’s Bethesda E3 2016 event, game…
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EA Originals Gives Big Support To Small Games
Today, during its E3 2016 press conference, EA announced EA Originals, a new program committed to partnering with small developers creating unique experiences and helping them bring their work to life. One of the stars of last year’s EA press conference was Unravel, a small game with a unique visual style that EA was helping…
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EA Shows Off Titanfall 2‘s Single And Multiplayer
A dry run of EA’s E3 2016 press conference was briefly broadcast live over the publisher’s YouTube channel, long enough to show us the debut trailer for Titanfall 2‘s single player campaign, coming October 28 to PS4, Xbox One and PC. Update: Respawn’s released official single and multiplayer trailers. Here’s the single-player trailer. ROBOT FRIEND!…
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The First Injustice 2 Gameplay Trailer Does Not Disappoint
From cinematic attacks tearing across the sky to the appearance of a certain blue cat dressed in a red onesie, so far Injustice 2has everything a fan of the first game could want, as long as they are me. The first gameplay trailer for the sequel to NetherRealm Studios’ hit comic book fighter showcases several…
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Star Trek: Bridge Crew Puts Four Players In Charge Of A VR Starship
While Ubisoft isn’t showing off the insides of the Star Trek bridge simulator it’s creating with developer Red Storm Entertainment until Monday, they do have a few details to go along with this picture of Geordi, Seven of Nine and New Bones freaking out with headsets on. According toa report over at ABC, stars from…
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The View From The Street On The Day Before E3
The pre-E3 walk of the LA Convention Center and its surrounding area is a tradition here at Kotaku. Take a look at the stuff our folks on the ground will be tired of looking at by the time the show ends. Except Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé. Who could ever tire of that cheerful…
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